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Gaining traction on Twitter and elsewhere is the story of Daisha Simmons. She started her basketball career at Rutgers, transferred to Alabama and wanted to transfer to Seton Hall to finish her career as a post-graduate student. The reason: Her brother is very ill and she wants to be with her family in Jersey City, N.J. However, Alabama won't let her transfer, which has a lot of people justifiably upset with the school and the NCAA. ... The U.S. women won their quarterfinal game by 22 points in the FIBA World Championships. That is no surprise when you make 41 of 58 shots from the field. Former UConn player Tina Charles and Brittney Griner each were 7 of 9 from the field. Lindsay Whalen...

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Gaining traction on Twitter and elsewhere is the story of Daisha Simmons. She started her basketball career at Rutgers, transferred to Alabama and wanted to transfer to Seton Hall to finish her career as a post-graduate student. The reason: Her...

BALTIMORE — Think for a second about postseason heroes in Orioles history.Once you move past Brooks Robinson, Frank Robinson and Rick Dempsey, there's another pantheon reserved for guys who will never end up in the team's Hall of Fame, but provided a...

Alex Avila drove a first-pitch slider off the right field wall in the bottom of the ninth inning Thursday to give the Detroit Tigers a 3-2 win over the New York Yankees. Avila's two-out blast off Shawn Kelley hit midway up the wall and out of the...

Longtime WNBA player Becky Hammon, who is retiring after this season with the San Antonio Stars, will be an assistant coach with the NBA champion San Antonio Spurs. She'll be the first female full-time assistant on an NBA coaching staff. Kudos to...

Crickets. Spring training starts, and we get crickets. Which is fine, which actually, might be pretty good.
The Dodgers are two days into their very new training camp and all is calm. Quiet as a desert night. No surprises, nothing newsy, nothing to get...

The most anonymous job in baseball once belonged to middle relievers, the offensive linemen of the national pastime.
They usually found themselves in the media spotlight only after blowing saves, and only a select few were ever considered for the...

The Orioles will only have two lefties in their bullpen for the American League Division Series that starts tonight at 5:37 p.m. against the Detroit Tigers, and Ubaldo Jimenez is a surprise addition to the roster.
The Tigers don’t have many left-handed...

An announced sellout crowd formed a sea of orange throughout the seating bowl of Camden Yards -- waving orange rally towels that said “Welcome to October” -- ready for the return of postseason baseball to Baltimore.
After nearly two weeks of...

A day after the Detroit Tigers bullpen imploded in Game 1, the same cast of relievers was again responsible for an eighth-inning meltdown that sent the Orioles on the road with a 7-6 win and a 2-0 lead in the American League Division Series.
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Think for a second about postseason heroes in Orioles history.
Once you move past the Brooks Robinsons, Frank Robinsons, and Rick Dempseys of franchise lore, there’s another pantheon reserved for guys who will never end up in the club’s Hall of Fame, but...

BALTIMORE -- There's something about playing the Detroit Tigers in the postseason that just seems to makes Nelson Cruz lock in at the plate.
Cruz homered six times vs. the Tigers in 2011 while playing with the Texas Rangers. He did some more damage...

DETROIT -- J.D. Martinez and Rajai Davis hit home runs and Max Scherzer held the Kansas City Royals to one run in 6 2/3 innings Tuesday night in a 4-2 Detroit Tigers victory. The win was enough to pull the Tigers into a first-place tie with the Royals...

NEW YORK --As much as the Orioles’ bats were struggling going into their series finale against the New York Yankees, it only took one inning for their fortune to change — and for a season set for doom to suddenly be rejuvenated.The Orioles were just...